Three in the Morning (very slow updates)

Casey isn't exactly the most popular girl. She doesn't really want to be popular. She doesn't like all the new crazes that everyone else does. She spends all her money on albums and band merchandise. Her friendship group is the sort of group that sits in the corner in hoodies and listens to music through a phone placed in the centre of their circle. Unlike most people, who count down the minutes until they can go home from school, Casey never wants to walk home in the pouring rain back to her house of arguments and shouting. But nobody needs to know about that.

Dan isn't popular at all. He has no friends, actually. He once did. He once played football with all the jocks of the school and he used to have piles of flowers from girls on his desk on Valentine's Day. But after summer, he's lost all of that reputation and star quality, and instead of going to the canteen, he'd much rather sit in the library and read a book, dreading the moment he has to face the world.

They lead completely different lives but somehow, in an English assignment where they're paired up for a project, they become friends. They start talking more and more until their conversations become night-time musings about life, and Casey and Dan realise they have more in common than they think.